Here’s an interesting list from AlterNet – their ten most popular stories of the year. ALterNet is a great resource, although a couple of the stories surprised me. They also have the top ten most discussed (which leans hard on 9/11), the top ten Iraq myths, the top ten outrageous right-wing comments of 2006, the top ten most popular book reviews, the top ten sex and relationship stories, and my personal favorite – a meta-list of the top ten top-ten…
I would like to see more opposition to the (so-called) christian nationalism (or dominionism) movement that has such a destructive effect on the American values of liberty, justice, and freedom. Opposition from the perspective of atheism(s) is one method: As an “out atheist,” Collette-Van Deraa said she often feels scorned as the other – “capital O in quotes.” “There are misconceptions that atheists hate anyone who is in organized religion, or that atheists are baby killers or old-people killers,” she…
Jesus Is Not a Republican By RANDALL BALMER Volume 52, Issue 42, Page B6 Nicely thought-out piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education – worth your time to read. A sampling to whet your appetite: Equally striking is the rhetoric that leaders of the religious right use to motivate their followers. In the course of traveling around the country, I have been impressed anew by the pervasiveness of the language of militarism among leaders of the religious right. Patrick Henry…